Marxism, what you got?

[vulcanlogician]

He believed that crime was a symptom of conflict in class based societies - and it's certainly true that people have managed to naturally behave ourselves since a great many of the laws he would have been familiar with and would have had in mind were struck down.  Today we contend that global poverty drives global terrorism - and marx would probably tell us he told us so.

I agree that crime is a symptom of class struggle.

However, I disagree that if you do away with classes, you do away with crime. Same thing with the government disappearing when communism is established. I think Marx got that wrong too.

In short, I consider myself a Marxist (because I think Marx had good criticisms). But I don't consider myself a communist. 

Even the type of communist who says, "Mao and the Soviets did it wrong."-- while these communists may be correct that Mao/Lenin did it wrong... I still think communism is unrealistic (as Marx envisioned it). People are determined by more than their social conditions. Social conditions are a huge determining factor, yes, but Marx overestimated how much of a factor it is.